Oh! sorry @fwilleke80 I misread your first message.

@ferdinand, I think I got confused from the beginning. I made a copy of my code from an objectData plugin to a scenehook plugin without changing DRAWPASS to SCENEHOOKDRAW

Everything is working just fine now(... except the aliasing) but the result is acceptable.

Thanks to both of you!
Best Regards,

Thank you @ferdinand! I appreciate the effort you put in your answers. very detailed and clear. Thank you again.

Thank you @fwilleke80 for your answer!
honestly, to be surprised, I'm surprised! seeing the video, I was pretty sure that DrawHUDText() method was used, but how did you manage to get this result ? (smooth text, visible above the safe frame!).. because when I used it, it was ...meh!

Best regards,

First, thank you @ferdinand for your answer!

• Q1: OK, thank you
• Q2: this is exactly what I thought before until I saw a video of a plugin (Terraformx). The text was drawn on top of the safe frame (plase check out the image below).

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2. You cannot draw on top of safe frames inside NodeData.Draw....

By reading this part, should I understand that it's possible to achieve this by using a different plugin type (....a sceenhook plugin I guess) ? if so, how to do it ?

Thanks!

Hi,

I am trying to display some text in the viewport. to do my tests I'm overriding the Draw method (objectdata plugin). Everything seems to work fine except two small things:

1- The text is not smooth : there is a slight aliasing on it.
2- The text is hidden under the bands that sourround the safe frame. for instance the default "Perspective" HUD text is visible even when you have 100% opaque bands.

    ...
    def Draw(self, op, drawpass, bd, bh):

        if drawpass == c4d.DRAWPASS_HIGHLIGHTS:
            return c4d.DRAWRESULT_SKIP

        bd.SetMatrix_Screen()
        bd.DrawHUDText(2, 25, "Perspective")

        return c4d.DRAWRESULT_OK

did I forget something? Any suggestion will be helpful.

Thanks !